Friday, February 17, 2012

First Post in the Book Blogger Love-A-Thon

Hey everyone! I know I'm starting just a bit late, but I'm actually on vacation right now and writing this post from a hotel room.

I do want to participate though, and can't wait to share this first post with all of you.

I'm writing this post to tell you all about my friendship with a wonderful woman named Sari. Sari lives hundreds and hundreds of miles away from me, but is one of my closest friends. We've never met face to face, but this woman knows more about me, my wants, needs, fears, and faults, than most of my 'close' friends.

We met through a Yahoo Group (if you don't know what that is, congratulations, this means you didn't spend your teenage years in front a computer) that was centered around-you guessed it Books. In the last couple of years I've not been participating in the group much, but I took away a couple of great friendships from it. Sari was a group member before I was, and we really hit it off. Eventually we would have off topic conversations through private email, and then after an absence on one of our parts (I can't remember who...) we exchanged phone numbers to catch up. Now we talk roughly once a week, sometimes much more, sometimes much less, but always, always coming back to each other.

I feel as if, from a far, I'm a part of her family. I talk to her son often via facebook and sometimes on the phone (when he's home, as now he's off at college). I sent him a graduation card, and he asks about my well being from time to time as well. My boyfriend is always concerned about how Sari is doing, and has been known to ask when I am cranky "Have you talked to Sari lately?"

Sari supports my job, relationship, school (especially school) and is always there for advice when I don't know what I'm doing. She compliments my writing, helps me through tough times, and is always the person I call when I am excited about something new in my life.

Sari also happens to run a blog. She recently switched from Blogger to Wordpress and was sad to see that not many of her followers...followed. She's an excellent writer, and writes about the most interesting topics. Everything from books, to science, history, and current events.

I want to ask all of you who are participating in the Love-A-Thon to stop by and check her out. She's worth it, I promise.

15 comments:

Your post was so sweet and heart-felt! It is truly amazing that you have been able to form such an awesome friendship like that! Sari sounds like a great person :) p.s. Hope you are having fun on your vacation!!!

Wow, here I was cruising the blog world hopping to read your latest review and instead, I read this. I almost cried. You are an amazing person and great friend. We will meet one day, I promise! Thanks for this heartfelt post. You make me want to be a great writer. Thank you for everything.

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